riemer



No. 62!,287. Patented wlar. 14, I899.

A. H. mamas,

SHOE.

licaticn filed Dec. 18

NrrED STATES ALBERT I-I. RIEMER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

SHOE.

SPECIFICATION foffiiing art of Letters PatentN'o. 621,287, dated March 14, 1899.

Application filed December 13 1897. Serial No. 661,649. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. RIEMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the countyof Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of shoes which are provided with Wooden soles, and pertains more especially to the device by which the upper of the shoe is secured to the sole.

The construction of my shoe is explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section drawn on line X X of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a central vertical section View.

Like parts are referred to by the same reference-letters.

A represents the sole of the shoe, which is provided with a V-shaped groove B, made for the reception of the lower edge of the upper of the shoe O,which is secured therein by the fastening-wire D and wire-retaining staples E. As indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, the lower edge of the upper is drawn firmly downward within the groove B by the retaining-wire D, having its edge protruding outwardly flush with the outer edge of the sole, as indicated at F. When the wire has been drawn, as indicated, firmly around the lower edge of the upper, the same is secured in place by the series of staples E, which engage around the wire and are firmly driven over the same into the sole, whereby the upper is secured firmly in place. The heel or rear part of the shoe is provided with a stiffening-counter G, which is stitched to the upper in the ordinary manner, as indicated at H, and its lower edge is drawn down firmly into the V-shaped groove B, where it is secured in place between the upper of the shoe and the interior bearingsurface of the sole, as indicated in Fig. 3. It is obvious that by the device described the leather is held in the groove of the sole by the binding-wire,while the binding-wire is in turn held against the leather and made to conform to the concave or inward curves of the upperretaining groove around the edge of the sole by the staples, which staples straddle said binding-wire and are driven through the edge of the upper into the sole, thereby drawing said binding-wire down firmly against the exterior surface of the leather. When the upper has been thus secured to the sole, the outward projecting edge may be nicely trimmed off flush with the edge of the sole,which gives the shoes. neat and finished appearance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a shoe, the device for securinga leather upper to a wooden sole, consisting in the combination of a sole A, provided with a V-shaped groove B, upper O, upper-retaining bindingwire D, and wire-retaining staples E, said upper being drawn down and firmly held within said groove by said binding-wire D, while said binding wire is in turn drawn down against said upper by said retaining-staples, which staples straddle or engage around said binding-wire, and are driven through the upper into the Wooden sole, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT H. RIEMER.

Witnesses:

J AS. B. ERWIN, L. 0. WHEELER. 

